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Google page rank predictions
Search Engine Optimisation The next big page rank update from Google is pencilled in for late July or early August 2007. This is a very signifcant update for BloggingTips as our page rank is currently zero due to me moving the domain so near the start of this project. With a few weeks left before the update, I thought it would be a great time to test how accurate page rank prediction tools are. Some people think that are useful whilst others think they are a waste of ...
Continue readingThe perils of broken links
Search Engine Optimisation When was the last time you saw a broken link? Probably in that MFA site where RSS feeds related to a particular topic is simply pulled in from search engines. Or that scrappy looking -Web 2.0 site on Free icons! Bad examples there, but my point is to prove that you relate a broken link to a badly drafted site very easily.You are right. A broken link is a bad example of SEO. First off , let’s see what a broken link is. Usually, people link ...
Continue readingThe importance of having keywords in your domain name
Search Engine Optimisation This blog has been online since March 2007 but since i changed the domain from bloggingtips.org to bloggingtips.com the blog had a little setback with regards to page rank and getting a good placing in the search engines. This didn’t really bother me too much as the site wasn’t online too long before the last PR update and the extra few months has given me more time to build up backlinks and content for the spiders to enjoy! With ...
Continue readingDecrease your page load time – Save traffic
Search Engine Optimisation How much time does your blog take to load itself on the browser? Many of you may reply – just a few seconds. My next question would be – How many seconds? Based on your answer, please feel free to place you in one of the below categories. Category 1- Below 15 seconds Category 2- Below 10 seconds Category 3- Below 4 seconds Category 4- Below 2 seconds If you belong to Category 3 or 4, you are safe otherwise, you may have to look at ...
Continue readingWeb CEO – Free SEO Software to analyse your blog
Search Engine Optimisation The last few years i have been using the free version of Web CEO to monitor the websites i run. It’s a fantastic piece of software and one which i can personally recommend through experience. Web CEO can be quite slow loading sometimes (particularly on start up) and when you first start using it you will no find all the options you have to be daunting. If you perservere though you will soon realise how useful a tool it is in analysing your ...
Continue readingSEO check list to help you optimise your blog
Search Engine Optimisation Search Engine Optmization is very deep and wide a topic that any starter can get easily confused/mislead/confused by it’s complexities. From my experience, SE optimization should be done in a very step by step format, otherwise it would be difficult for you to track your returns or find out exactly as to what are the measure ables that helped you get that particular result on the SERP’s. For this reason, for all those young bloggers ...
Continue readingRobots.txt basics
Search Engine Optimisation The Robots.txt file is used to direct search engines to the content you want them to see and block the content you dont want them to see. It can also be used to block search engines you specify from crawling your site altogether. Robots.txt Basics To make a robots.txt file all you need to do is open notepad (or any other text editor) and save the file as robots.txt:) You can place a robots.txt file on any directory in website however the most ...
Continue readingGoogle PageRank Update started
Search Engine Optimisation Google has been updating their servers the last few days. You may have noticed a change in search engine traffic to your blog because of it. I hope you all did well in the new update. As i expected, BloggingTips is still too new to get a pagerank so ill have to bide my time and wait til the next update. Which is fine with me You can see what your blogs PR is on all dataservers here. Bear in mind it might be a few days more before your rank is ...
Continue readingQuickly check your blogs Search Engine Status on Google
Search Engine Optimisation If your a stats fiend im sure you all check your blogs status on google from time to time. This is just a quick post to highlight some of the ways you can check your blogs stats on googles. You can check Your Page Rank online using Check Page Rank, PRChecker or you can install the Google Toolbar. More information on checking page rank can be found in my post ‘Google Page Rank Tools‘ Here is a short list of commands to check ...
Continue readingWhy Google traffic and link traffic are the same?
Search Engine Optimisation One of my commentators, Leroy Brown, left a comment a while ago. He runs a blog called Green Llama but he also runs BloggingBlog. The latest post is entitled ‘Why Google traffic and link traffic are the same‘. Read his article before you proceed reading this as ill be talking about what he said. Ok…you’ve read it haven’t you OK, to summarise, he says that you should build up link traffic from other sources because ...
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